Municipalities encouraged to attend workshop on Cook County Vacant Building Ordinance (City of Chicago, Downtown)

You are cordially invited to a workshop, hosted by the Cook County Bureau of Economic Development and Dept. of Building and Zoning, to explain the recently passed Vacant Building Ordinance and how it can help your municipality. As you may be aware, the ordinance allows interested municipal governments to "opt-in," with the goal of creating a uniform set of guidelines for maintaining and securing vacant properties throughout Cook County. The workshop will provide additional information regarding the features of the ordinance, including the creation of a vacant building registry and the ability to adjudicate violations of the ordinance through the Cook County Department of Administrative Hearings.
 
We believe these features will be valuable tools to participating municipalities as we all work to address the cost, crime, and public safety issues that vacant buildings have created in our neighborhoods and hope you will be able join us to learn more about this ordinance.  
 

Please use this link to register online and to pre-submit any questions you may have about the ordinance. 
 
If you have any questions or need more information please contact Patrick Carey at 312/603-1055 or patrick.carey@cookcountyil.gov.